Staff Security Engineer, AI
DraftKings is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to join its growing security team. This role focuses on ensuring that the use of emerging technology at DraftKings is conducted safely and securely, relying on deep technical expertise to assess how to connect and deploy new workflows, processes, and technologies.
The successful candidate will work strategically to influence the company’s overall security posture, architecture, and roadmap across a variety of domains. This involves collaborating with product, engineering, and research teams to build and deploy tooling that helps the business connect different services and data together. The role requires the ability to explain complex work to a broad audience, ranging from individual contributors to senior leadership.
- Set the security standards and guardrails for the AI platform.
- Define the principles, reference architectures, and policy-as-code that all AI tooling at DraftKings adheres to.
- Focus on specifying the environment, infrastructure, and authentication methods agents rely on.
- Review and build the architecture of AI gateways and tooling.
- Provide security review, sign-off, and potentially pair on the implementation of systems and the systems they interface with.
- Make the security review process scale by streamlining how AI services move through InfoSec review.
- Reduce AI-driven security noise by partnering with platform and detection teams on telemetry and lightweight controls.
- Drive remediation efforts of complex, cross-functional security issues.
- Mentor security and platform engineers, lead technical and SME discussions on AI security, and elevate the team's overall capability.
- 7+ years experience in engineering, building and operating systems in production (required)
- 5+ years experience contributing and advising on security design (required)
- Broad security fluency across infrastructure and enterprise security, including endpoint protection, network security, identity, SaaS tools, and cloud security (required)
- Deep hands-on ability to debug systems issues (required)
- Experience writing high quality code in a typed and untyped programming language (required)
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills (required)
- Ability to manage competing priorities and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment (required)
- US base salary range of 160,700.00 USD - 200,900.00 USD
- Bonus and equity
- Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision
- Wellbeing program including free therapy sessions with Lyra, Employee Assistance Program, Calm App, and virtual yoga
- 14 weeks of 100% paid parental leave and workplace lactation support
- Care.com partnership for backup childcare
- Family planning benefits including support for adoption, surrogacy, and fertility treatments
- Flexible PTO
- Pet insurance
- Gym reimbursement
- Financial planning support including 401(k) matching and Origin Financial
- Commuter benefits
- Tuition reimbursement program
DraftKings Inc. is a leading American digital sports entertainment and gaming company, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 2012, it started in daily fantasy sports and has grown into one of the largest US online sportsbook and iGaming operators. The company offers mobile sports betting, online casino and daily fantasy contests across regulated North American markets. DraftKings is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange and employs several thousand people.